Politics & Power Quote by Monica Bellucci

There is a shrug in Bellucci's line, but it lands like an indictment. She isn’t bragging about Hollywood’s reach so much as naming the asymmetry baked into how culture travels: America exports by default; everyone else has to audition for global relevance. The plainspoken phrasing - “it’s going to come out all over the world” - carries the quiet certainty of infrastructure: distribution networks, marketing muscle, English as a lingua franca, the expectation that American stories are for everyone.

Her comparison to Italian and French cinema isn’t an aesthetic judgment; it’s a market reality with artistic consequences. A French film can be acclaimed, even iconic, and still be treated internationally as “specialty.” An American film can be mediocre and still get a worldwide footprint. That imbalance nudges actors, directors, and financiers toward Hollywood not just for money, but for visibility and permanence. Bellucci, who moved between European auteurs and blockbuster ecosystems, is speaking from the inside of that trade-off.

The subtext is also about cultural hierarchy: the way “American” becomes a synonym for “global,” while other national cinemas are kept legible as local flavors. It’s a soft form of dominance, maintained less by censorship than by logistics and habit. Bellucci’s sentence is crisp because it refuses romanticism. It frames globalization not as a borderless utopia but as a one-way current - and it’s hard not to hear the implication: when one country’s movies automatically become everyone’s movies, everyone else’s stories are forced to fight for oxygen.